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Helping Verbs

Discover how helping verbs add meaning and precision to your sentences! Learn to use auxiliary verbs like a pro.

🤝 What Are Helping Verbs?

Helping verbs add meaning to other verbs.
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Sentence with no helping verb
She lived here last year.
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Sentence with helping verb has
She has lived here since last year.

💡 Key Insight: The helping verb "has" changes the meaning from a completed past action to an action that started in the past and continues to the present!

📝 Helping Verb Examples

1
She does not want the book.
2
A meal is provided every day.
3
Should the students have been allowed to miss class?

Notice how helping verbs work together with main verbs to create different meanings, tenses, and moods!

📚 Helping Verbs of English

Click on any verb to see it highlighted! These are also called auxiliary verbs.

Be Verbs
  • be
Do Verbs
  • do
  • does
  • did
Have Verbs
  • have
  • has
  • had
Modal Verbs
  • shall
  • should
  • will
  • would
Can/Could
  • can
  • could
May/Might/Must
  • may
  • might
  • must

📖 Alternative Name: Helping verbs are also called auxiliary verbs.

🎯 Interactive Practice

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